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Startups – Beware The Changing Palo Alto Investment Model

YoungUpstarts

Due to lowering capital costs, global competition that spans industries and continents, quicker market validations, and facilitated iteration, the nature of the investment game has changed. As it happens, in the last 30 years, available capital has tripled to stand at roughly 10 times global GDP. Expanding tech talent.

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Blockstream

thebarefootvc

– Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company). Globally, there are 2.5 Traditional banks are hampering global GDP growth by not providing financial services such as loans to people who can expand their livelihoods through those services. Now expand this to a cross border world.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account. Two is to reach up to 20,000 new households, including expanding into one, maybe two new markets outside Kenya.

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Blockstream

thebarefootvc

– Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company). Globally, there are 2.5 Traditional banks are hampering global GDP growth by not providing financial services such as loans to people who can expand their livelihoods through those services. Now expand this to a cross border world.

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Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution

NZ Entrepreneur

Having spent close on a decade working in and reporting on our small but burgeoning startup ecosystem, and a decade before that “building my chops” in other various entrepreneurial endeavours, I am familiar with the toll that entrepreneurship can exact on founder mental health. If your business is a success you are a success.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Mightyverse builds video-driven language tools for mobile devices, collecting words, phrases, and sentences translated from one language to another, creating a global language marketplace.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Mightyverse builds video-driven language tools for mobile devices, collecting words, phrases, and sentences translated from one language to another, creating a global language marketplace.